Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley (28 December 1952-24 August 2019) was the Minister of Finance of India from 26 May 2014 to 30 May 2019, succeeding Palaniappan Chidambaram and preceding Nirmala Sitharaman.

Biography
Arun Jaitley was born in Delhi, India in 1952, and he joined the RSS student union while in university and became active in the anti-Indira Gandhi student movement during the state of emergency in the 1970s, being detained by the government on many occasions. In 1987, he became a lawyer at the Supreme Court of India, and he was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2000 as a Bharatiya Janata Party member (having served on its national executive since 1991). From 2014 to 2019, he served as Leader of the Rajya Sabha during its BJP control, and he served under Narendra Modi as Minister of Finance, Defense Minister, and Minister of Corporate Affairs. He opposed reserving parliament seats for religious and caste minorities, and he helped to demonetize the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes to fight against financial corruption. In 2019, he decided to resign from the government due to poor health, and he died of soft-tissue sarcoma in 2019.